Free Web NovelThe rain pattered down.
It fell on the hundreds of `Body Double` bubbles imbued with Lu Yibei's talent skill, making a soft'sizzle' sound and sending up wisps of pale steam.
It was like water droplets falling on red-hot metal.
After hearing Lu Yibei's words, Hu Chuan was stunned for two seconds before bursting into laughter.
"Hehehe, the line you just said, isn't it White Little Flower's line from `love and magical girls`?"
"Oh?" Lu Yibei examined Hu Chuan carefully, raising an eyebrow slightly. "You could tell? I didn't expect you to be a White Little Flower fan? That's quite surprising."
Hu Chuan shrugged, "There was a guy who was extremely obsessed with `love and magical girls` and quite skilled, who stayed in Shizhou City for a while. I originally planned to invite her to join the Secret Society..."
"Oh, I see!" Lu Yibei suddenly interrupted. "Looking at your expression, you probably tried to recruit her and failed, right?"
"..."
Hu Chuan frowned slightly, opened his mouth, but said nothing, though his eyes betrayed his thoughts.
It was a past too painful to recall, revealed with an expression of embarrassment mixed with a hint of anger.
"Indeed, that person refused the Secret Society's invitation without hesitation," Hu Chuan admitted frankly.
He spoke unhurriedly, as if his escape had not been intercepted, as if he hadn't experienced that horrific car accident from which ordinary people could barely survive, and as if the girl before him hadn't brazenly declared, "I'm simply here to kill you."
But he merely acted that way.
The moment he spoke his first sentence, he had already silently activated the vicarious Yagn Nie Power, beginning to attempt to corrode the items Gu Qianqian carried with her.
A chaotic color, undetectable by others, emanated from his body like a thin mist, swirling around Lu Yibei.
But the only item she carried was a broken sword.
A broken sword protected by some mysterious force, difficult to corrode.
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Yes, Lu Yibei wasn't carrying any items that Hu Chuan could 'turn'.
After her experience in the residential area near Bu Ye Street, coupled with the fact that her plan to capture Elder Wang via the lead from Yang Yichen was inexplicably discovered, she no longer trusted any 'items'.
A Disaster would never stumble three times on the same thing!
Any item carried on her person could become Hu Chuan's eyes and weapon, a liability during combat.
Therefore, when she left the Medji restaurant near Yuhua Road, she had already cleaned out the more than thirty items she carried, including her phone, potions, Paper Cicada Immortal, fuxing copper coin, infinite spicy strips, talismans, phone... etc.
Lu Yibei declared that she had never fought such a 'poor' battle in her life!
However, to make Hu Chuan appear and then follow him without being detected, this was the only way.
Finally, when she arrived at the small commodity wholesale market, she was only left with the Lingtai Pure Karma and Elder Sister, which had been battle-tested and could not be 'turned'.
Oh, Elder Sister wasn't an item!
As for how she could fit so many things on her person...
If someone could unzip Lu Yibei's Coat, they would surely be shocked by the complex and practical structure of the Coat's lining, designed to hold various small items.
Perhaps this was the convenience that came with a petite figure?
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"Mm, that makes sense! I knew that White Little Flower's fans couldn't be scoundrels like you!" Lu Yibei continued. freeweɓnøvel.com
Hu Chuan frowned again.
He really didn't understand these ACG enthusiasts.
Just as he didn't understand why Gu Qianqian could remain so calm at this moment, chatting idly with him.
He was willing to say a few more words to Gu Qianqian because he had something to rely on.
With the grace of that Adult, with thousands of Secret Society members as hostages, and with the battle at the furniture city in a stalemate and Da Chunyang Palace disciples constantly reinforcing... he wasn't worried at all that Gu Qianqian would become an obstacle to his departure from Shizhou City.
But what was Gu Qianqian relying on?
Hu Chuan looked at the girl before him suspiciously, constantly wary of the broken sword in her hand. As his gaze inadvertently swept over her face and met her eyes for a moment, he froze.
She was so beautiful... This thought inexplicably flashed through Hu Chuan's mind, and his eyes slightly lost focus.
He was suddenly captivated by Gu Qianqian's beauty.
Those dark red eyes emitted a vortex-like temptation, drawing people in, causing them to lose themselves.
And the last time he felt such a strong attraction was when he first saw the true face of Yagn Nie...
In a trance, Hu Chuan saw an incredibly enchanting flower bloom before his eyes.
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In magic, there is a term called "Misdirection". Simply put, during a magic performance, when the audience thinks something is happening, the magician may not have started the operation yet, or may have already finished it.
Lu Yibei's line "I'm simply here to kill you," the Lingtai Pure Karma constantly exposed in Hu Chuan's line of sight, and the Body Double bubbles floating behind her...
These were Lu Yibei's "Misdirection"!
When a person says something like "I'm going to kill you" and displays strong killing intent, driven by habitual thinking, people usually become wary of the things in that person's hands that could harm them, while overlooking certain details, and certainly not speculating too much about that person's true purpose.
Lu Yibei didn't think she could easily defeat Hu Chuan by herself.
Hu Chuan not only vicariously held part of the Pink Fluffy Rabbit's Power but also carried 'items' made from Zhang Shuo and even more high-level Psychic.
Even if Hu Chuan couldn't fully utilize their strength after they became 'items', the combat power boost they provided him was still considerable.
She had personally experienced that combat power when she was on Bu Ye Street.
Going head-to-head with Hu Chuan the moment they met, after abandoning all her personal items, was completely unfeasible!
However...
In this world full of urban legend, the means of combat were never limited to fist-to-flesh, sword-to-blood close combat, or the terrifying, dazzling Spell confrontations.
Unpredictable Gu poisons, silent Spells, bizarre special abilities, and higher-level means like the corruption of Power—these methods of killing with a'soft knife' also existed.
While Hu Chuan was attempting to 'turn' Lu Yibei's personal items, Lu Yibei was also attempting to 'turn' his body.
And in this bloodless contest, Lu Yibei ultimately gained a slight advantage.
However, Lu Yibei was somewhat surprised that she was able to successfully apply the Reverse-pattern Evil Flower Gu to Hu Chuan so smoothly.
If Hu Chuan hadn't recognized the line she spoke as being from `love and magical girls` and started chatting with her...
She wouldn't have been able to get Hu Chuan into a Charm state so quickly, and through the subtle connection established between them by the Charm ability, complete the application of the Reverse-pattern Evil Flower Gu.
Scoundrel...
Didn't expect this, did you? After just one day apart, I've learned a new skill!
Envious? I exchanged hundreds of lives for it...
Lu Yibei's gaze towards Hu Chuan turned cold. She raised the Lingtai Pure Karma with both hands, aiming the blade at Hu Chuan's neck.
The way this guy killed the Headless Senior back then, that's how she would send this guy off now!
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It was only when Hu Chuan saw Lu Yibei raise the broken sword with both hands, about to strike him, that he suddenly woke up from that dazed state influenced by the Charm ability.
He instinctively wanted to defend, but found that the flow of time had suddenly become incredibly slow.
He struggled to raise his hand to shield himself, but his movements were agonizingly slow, like film footage playing frame by frame.
The most fatal part was that only he had become slow.
The blowing wind, the falling rain, and the sword descending from Gu Qianqian's hand maintained their usual speed.
In an instant, the blade closed in on his throat, the sharp sword energy pulsed, and his skin felt a needle-like sting.
Seeing this, Hu Chuan slowly closed his eyes, seemingly welcoming the end.
At this moment, he gave up, his body...
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【He blocked your blade】
When the prediction flashed through Lu Yibei's mind, she was momentarily stunned.
In her sight, Hu Chuan, who was afflicted by the Reverse-pattern Evil Flower Gu, was moving his hands slowly, completely unable to defend against her attack.
Just as Lu Yibei was briefly In a daze, Hu Chuan's chest suddenly tore open, revealing a fissure.
Pale, viscous liquid emerged from between his bones and flesh, accompanied by a crackling sound of bones. In an instant, it condensed into a thick arm, gripping a weapon, and slashing out a silvery white trajectory towards the incoming Lingtai Pure Karma.
"Clang!"
An ear-piercing sound of metal colliding erupted, stinging her eardrums.
Lu Yibei felt a sharp pain in her hand. A massive force transmitted through the blade to her arm, traveling upwards, sending her body flying backward like a kite with a broken string.
"Whoosh!"
The sound of wind suddenly appeared.
The instant Lu Yibei's body began to fall, the Shui Shu Beast flew over from the side, caught her, and landed steadily. Then, it positioned itself sideways, its strong and powerful limbs kicking up a person-high spray of water on the flooded road, coming to a halt.
After stabilizing herself on the Shui Shu Beast's back, Lu Yibei looked towards Hu Chuan's direction and saw a bizarre sight.
A chaotic color, identical to that of the Pink Fluffy Rabbit, boiled and rolled around Hu Chuan's body. His flesh and blood twisted and wriggled in a way that was difficult for ordinary people to comprehend and extremely unsettling.
Pale, viscous liquid continuously surged from the fissure in his chest, rapidly spreading throughout his entire body.
Following this, with a series of 'crackling' bone-bursting sounds, as if turning a Coat inside out, his body inverted through the fissure in his chest, from the inside out.
The entire process made Lu Yibei feel extremely uncomfortable. With each popping sound, she felt phantom pain in ➤ NоvеⅠight ➤ (Read more on our source) all her joints.
Then, when she came back to her senses, all that remained before her was a massive, pale mass of flesh, with bones wrapped in flesh, no fixed shape, enveloped in a chaotic colored mist, and constantly wriggling.
Around its body, over a dozen items emitting considerable Spiritual Energy fluctuations hovered and danced like satellites. Among them was the remnant of the Lingtai Pure Karma!
The next moment, a dark golden alms bowl circling around the flesh mass suddenly shot towards Lu Yibei. Accompanied by the sound of exploding Sanskrit chants, the alms bowl instantly transformed into a muscular martial monk shining with a metallic luster...
